Armed with nothing but his mobile-phone camera and a healthy sense of cynicism, @Superlatist has travelled the country photographing the mundane or surreal and sending it up with a killer caption on the web. From inappropriate fonts to depressing birthday cakes, nothing is safe from being

Everybody who truly loves food knows gorging on just one or two dishes in a good restaurant is a travesty. You want to taste as many of the chef’s creations as possible, which is why “small plates” have caught on in such a big way. Now someone has pushed the fast-forward button on that concept

You’ve probably never asked yourself what your bank card PIN says about you, but the answer is “a lot”. There are 10,000 four-digit PIN combinations but researchers at DataGenetics, the data analysis firm, discovered that about 20 per cent of us use one of three. And more than half of those use a

Russia’s president Vladimir Putin last week appeared on state TV discussing the joys of an orgy. “Some fans of group sex say that it’s better than one-on-one because, as with any collective work, you can skive off,” he said, joining the pantheon of leaders who have dispensed dubious sex advice

Among Britain’s high street retailers, self-gifting is the Holy Grail. There’s nothing they like more than someone who ends up buying “just a couple of things” for themselves while they’re doing their festive shopping, which might explain why Selfridges opened its Christmas Shop yesterday — a full

James Caan, 51, is a British-Pakistani entrepreneur and former judge on Dragon’s Den. He left school before taking his GCSEs and is now worth an estimated £70m. He lives in north London with his wife and two daughters. His book Start Your Business in 7 Days is out now. Breakfast After a session

Why did the wife of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney ply reporters flying with her to the Republican convention with homemade Welsh cakes? The lard-laden scones, she said, were baked to her grandmother’s own recipe, just as they always cooked them in the pit village of Nantyffyllon, Mid Glamorgan.

Charismatic Boris Johnson When he got stuck on a zip wire over an East London park earlier this month, David Cameron moaned: “If any other politician anywhere in the world was stuck on a zipwire it would be a disaster. For Boris, it’s an absolute triumph.” Barack Obama Despite the economic

Breakfast I woke up in a hotel in Cumnock near Dumfries House, which I’d been visiting and which our National Trust president, the Prince of Wales, helped to buy. Then I got straight on a train down to the East Midlands. I had breakfast along the way — granola and yoghurt, which I bought from Pret

If you thought that a pool party involved a sunlounger, a strawberry daiquiri, and a few friends with iPod speakers, it’s time you dusted off the ‘90 and became acquainted with 2012. As the photographs of Prince Harry’s revels in Las Vegas revealed, pool parties have moved on. No longer the domain